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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Star Trek: Voyager Season 5 Episode 18 - The Fight
    5.0/10(2334 votes)

    S5:E18

    Stardate: Unknown. While boxing on the holodeck, Chakotay is contacted by a telepathic species. However, prolonged communication may leave him insane or braindead.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Michael Taylor

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  2. Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 15 - Threshold
    5.3/10(2897 votes)

    S2:E15

    Stardate: Unknown. After finding a type of dilithium that can survive at a higher temperatures, Tom Paris comes up with the ingenious idea of attempting to cross the transwarp threshold in an attempt to find a way to get home faster.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 4 - Elogium
    5.8/10(2440 votes)

    S2:E4

    Stardate: 48921.3. While the crew of Voyager investigate a cluster of space-borne life forms, Kes begins exhibiting strange intense symptoms.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 7 - Sacred Ground
    5.8/10(2482 votes)

    S3:E7

    Stardate: 50063.2. Captain Janeway has to undergo a rigorous ritual in order to save Kes' life when she is knocked unconscious.

    Director:Robert Duncan McNeill
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 20 - Favorite Son
    6.0/10(2207 votes)

    S3:E20

    Stardate: 50732.4. Harry Kim experiences strong senses of deja vu in an unknown region of space. He soon learns that he is native to this region and that he is T'Karian, not human.

    Director:Marvin V. Rush
    Writer:Lisa Klink

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  6. Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 9 - Tattoo
    6.1/10(2430 votes)

    S2:E9

    Stardate: Unknown. Upon discovering a cultural symbol drawn in the ground on a planet that was used by his ancestors to 'heal the land', Chakotay tries to contact the beings his tribe called the 'Sky Spirits.'

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writers:Larry Brody, Michael Piller

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  7. Star Trek: Voyager Season 5 Episode 5 - Once Upon a Time
    6.1/10(2269 votes)

    S5:E5

    Stardate: Unknown. While Voyager searches for the crew of the crashed Delta Flyer carrying Tuvok, Paris and Ensign Wildman, Neelix must keep Naomi occupied. When it is discovered that Samantha is badly injured, he must decide how much he should tell her daughter.

    Director:John T. Kretchmer
    Writer:Michael Taylor

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  8. Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 Episode 3 - Barge of the Dead
    6.1/10(2276 votes)

    S6:E3

    Stardate: Unknown. A near-death experience sends Torres into the apparent Klingon afterlife, and leaves her searching for answers when she returns.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writers:Bryan Fuller, Ronald D. Moore

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  9. Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 Episode 17 - Spirit Folk
    6.1/10(2237 votes)

    S6:E17

    Stardate: Unknown. The inhabitants of the holo-city of Fair Haven suspect the Voyager crew of having mystical powers when they witness the use of their futuristic technology.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Bryan Fuller

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  10. Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 Episode 23 - Fury
    6.1/10(2233 votes)

    S6:E23

    Stardate: Unknown. Kes returns to Voyager in a state of rage, blaming Captain Janeway for her past. Using her expanded Ocampan powers in a fit of revenge, she travels through time to deliver the crew to the Vidiians.

    Director:John Bruno
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Rick Berman

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  11. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 18 - Darkling
    6.2/10(2114 votes)

    S3:E18

    Stardate: 50693.2. When the doctor tries to improve his personality by incorporating the psychological profiles of famous and historical people, he is overwhelmed by their dark sides and begins exhibiting signs of a split personality, one the regular doctor, and the other dark and evil. Kes asks to leave Voyager when they encounter a race with vast knowledge of the region of space they are currently exploring.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  12. Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 22 - Unforgettable
    6.2/10(2243 votes)

    S4:E22

    Stardate: Unknown. An alien woman who requests asylum on board Voyager claims that she was onboard the ship a month ago, and she fell in love with Chakotay.

    Director:Andrew Robinson
    Writers:Greg Elliot, Michael Perricone

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  13. Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 Episode 11 - Fair Haven
    6.2/10(2534 votes)

    S6:E11

    Stardate: Unknown. As the crew enjoys time off in a holo-program created by Tom Paris, and set in an Irish village named 'Fair Haven,' Captain Janeway falls for a handsome holo-character specifically designed for her. A deadly neutrino wave approaching Voyager shortly bring the festivities to a halt as this wave may prove to be more dangerous than they first imagined.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Robin Bernheim Burger

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  14. Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 Episode 5 - Alice
    6.3/10(2215 votes)

    S6:E5

    Stardate: Unknown. Tom Paris buys a beaten-up old hot-rod of a ship to restore, but B’Ellana begins to worry as Tom grows increasingly obsessed with the ship.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor

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  15. Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 Episode 5 - The Cloud
    6.4/10(2661 votes)

    S1:E5

    Stardate: 48546.2. Janeway tries to figure out what her dynamic with the crew should be while all stuck in the Delta Quadrant together. Voyager tries to harvest omicron particles to refuel the ship, but inadvertently injures a spacefaring organism.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Michael Piller

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  16. Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 7 - Parturition
    6.4/10(2311 votes)

    S2:E7

    Stardate: Unknown. Tom Paris and Neelix, while fighting over Kes’s affections, crash-land on a dangerous planet and become responsible for a sickly baby creature.

    Director:Jonathan Frakes
    Writer:Tom Szollosi

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  17. Star Trek: Voyager Season 5 Episode 22 - 11:59
    6.4/10(2338 votes)

    S5:E22

    Stardate: Unknown. Captain Janeway relates the story of her distant ancestor Shannon O'Donnell during the construction of the Millennium Gate on Earth during New Year's Eve 1999. She must convince the last holdout, local bookstore owner Henry Janeway to approve the plan.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  18. Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 2 - Initiations
    6.5/10(2434 votes)

    S2:E2

    Stardate: 49005.3. A young Kazon, desperate to prove himself and earn his name, tries to attack Chakotay.

    Directors:David Livingston, Winrich Kolbe
    Writers:Brannon Braga, Kenneth Biller

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  19. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 5 - False Profits
    6.5/10(2406 votes)

    S3:E5

    Stardate: 50074.3. The crew encounter a Bronze Age culture ruled by two “Sages” – a pair of Ferengi who arrived through a wormhole from the Alpha Quadrant.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Joe Menosky

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  20. Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 17 - Retrospect
    6.5/10(2333 votes)

    S4:E17

    Stardate: 51658.2. While re-fitting Voyager's systems with newly traded weapons, Seven of Nine claims to have been assaulted by Kovin, the weapons dealer. The Doctor soon makes a surprising discovery about the situation.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Bryan Fuller

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  21. Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 20 - Vis à Vis
    6.5/10(2091 votes)

    S4:E20

    Stardate: 51762.4. An alien test pilot who has the capability of switching bodies manages to take Tom's place aboard Voyager in order to escape the law.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Robert Doherty

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  22. Star Trek: Voyager Season 7 Episode 8 - Nightingale
    6.5/10(1991 votes)

    S7:E8

    Stardate: 54274.7 - Ensign Kim finds himself making the hard choices of mission commander when he agrees to help the crew of a ship in need.

    Director:LeVar Burton
    Writer:André Bormanis

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  23. Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 Episode 7 - Ex Post Facto
    6.6/10(2652 votes)

    S1:E7

    Stardate: Unknown. Tom Paris is accused of a murder he claims he did not commit. His sentence is to re-live the last few moments of his victim's life every 14 hours through a memory transplant.

    Director:LeVar Burton
    Writer:Michael Piller

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  24. Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 Episode 12 - Cathexis
    6.6/10(2437 votes)

    S1:E12

    Stardate: 48734.2. After Chakotay and Tuvok are injured in a shuttle accident, a non-corporeal life form begins to wreak havoc on Voyager by infiltrating the minds of the crew and altering the ship's systems one by one.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:Brannon Braga

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  25. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 3 - The Chute
    6.6/10(2258 votes)

    S3:E3

    Stardate: 50156.2. Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing.

    Director:Les Landau
    Writer:Kenneth Biller

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Fight" is the worst rated episode of "Star Trek: Voyager". It scored 5/10 based on 2334 votes. Directed by Winrich Kolbe and written by Joe Menosky, Michael Taylor, it aired on 3/24/1999. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Threshold".